This case study examines the ways in which a teacher education program develops prospective teachers who implement the principles of constructing mathematical knowledge via a learning discourse. The study presents and analyzes a mathematical discourse in a 4th grade class as well as the feedback conversation of prospective teachers with their…

This research examines "lesson study" as a traditional model of creating professional knowledge in schools. "Lesson study," typically defined as teachers' classroom based collaborative research, has a long history in Japan as a shared professional culture with potential for enhancing learning, enriching classroom activities and…

This textbook is a fourth-grade course in arithmetic. It contains a review of the principles taught in Book III, with their extension to problems of greater difficulty. A few new principles are introduced from time to time, the aim being to introduce the new thought side by side with the review of those already taught. Realizing that the highest…

This teachers' manual is to be used with the textbook "Better English: Grade Four" by Jeschke, Potter, and Gillet. It includes notes that explain briefly the first principles of language study and teaching, and suggestions for the conduct of the individual lessons.

This textbook is a reader with selections from familiar and popular ballads and tales relating to historic or legendary incidents and personages that have become famous in literature. Such selections as these, put into the hands of the young, will tend to foster a wholesome enjoyment of reading and to develop a fondness for books. They introduce…

This textbook is for use in a fourth-grade English course. Lessons are presented to develop pupils' ability to speak and to write effectively. They offer (1) opportunity for the child to express himself on important subjects close to the interests of his everyday life; (2) a well-organized series of constructive exercises to enrich his vocabulary…

This textbook is first in a series of science readers adapted to Secondary Grades comprising pupils who are in their third and fourth years of school work. The lessons are progressive, each one of the series being built on the facts taught in the previous lesson. Moreover, the subject matter--the properties of bodies; the nature, growth, and…

This textbook is a fourth-year reader in a series of readers prepared for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, now recognized as the crucial years in gaining technique in silent reading. The series objective to direct silent reading, to motivate oral reading, to develop the reading habit, and to broaden the child's outlook on life. In their…

This "Fourth Reader" is designed to meet the children on their own level and to lead them by easy stages to a higher plane. Special attention has been given to keeping the vocabulary within range of the pupil's ability. The earlier part of the book contains selections that are simple in vocabulary and sentence structure, and the later…

This textbook is a fourth-year reader. The lessons in this volume have been prepared and arranged with a view towards several ends: to interest the young reader; to cultivate a taste for the best style of literature as regards both thought and expression; to point the way to an acquaintance with good books; to appeal to the pupil's sense of duty,…

This textbook is part of a series designed to give an elementary school child all the arithmetical power necessary to cope with the situations of common everyday life. This book covers fundamental elements of arithmetical manipulation and thought. Thus, a child who goes no farther than the fourth or fifth grade will be so familiar with essentials…

This textbook presents a fourth-grade composition course stressing the different forms of language exercises--letters, narratives, descriptions, and expositions. This series of books aims to help the teacher by providing a systematic arrangement of subject-matter, thus saving the labor of searching for suitable material and, at the same time,…

This textbook is second in a series of science readers adapted to Secondary Grades comprising pupils who are in their third and fourth years of school work. The lessons are progressive, each one of the series being built on the facts taught in the previous lesson. Moreover, the subject matter--the properties of bodies; the nature, growth, and…

This textbook is the third in a series of science readers adapted to Secondary Grades comprising pupils who are in their third and fourth years of school work. The lessons are progressive, each one of the series being built on the facts taught in the previous lesson. Moreover, the subject matter--the properties of bodies; the nature, growth, and…

"America's Story for America's Children" is a graded series of readers intended to prepare for the regular study of history and to supplement it. Care has been taken to give prominence to the elements of life and personality and picturesqueness, so as to develop centres of interest which more advanced and systematic study will bring into…